At the controls was Navy Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, the oldest son of a former U.S. ambassador to Britain, and a man who carried the promise of one of the great political families in American ...

Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Friday, one day after the two went missing in the Chesapeake Bay. Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a prominent ...

Joseph Kennedy Sr., starting from a solidly middle class family in Boston, created a fortune that gave his children and grandchildren the freedom to pursue public service. Kennedy’s business ...

Her brother, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, served as a congressman from Massachusetts from 1987 to 1999 before returning to run the Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit organization he founded ...

Four of Joseph Kennedy’s daughters pose with friends in this group shot (left to right): Nancy Tenney, Patricia Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Julia Reed, Kate Thom.

PD. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of Boston politician John Fitzgerald and wife of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., was the matriarch of a large and ambitious family. She bore four sons and ...

Kennedy, 1959. Library of Congress. The tide of political power was changing in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century. Irish ward bosses like John F. Fitzgerald and Patrick Joseph Kennedy ...